Project Sketch Guding Question 1, Activities, and Resources : PBL Group 1
EDIM 502 Project Based Learning
Summer 2013
Michelle Thomson
Essential Question (guiding question): How do I set a specific and measurable goal?
Objectives:
Students will be able to think critically about goals.
Students will be able to edit a goal to make it more specific and measurable.
Activation/Motivation Strategy: As a class, brainstorm some possible ideas of goals (either class goals or individual goals). List on chart paper or use a collaborative online tool such as Padlet, or a discussion board in Edmodo. Explain that the purpose of the lesson is to learn how to make our goals better.
Teaching Strategies:
Directly teach the vocabulary concepts of “specific” and “measurable”.
Model taking one or more of the student ideas from the class list and edit to make it more specific and measurable. Have volunteers highlight the words that make it specific. With a different color highlight or underline the words that make it measurable.
Check for understanding: Give students the following three choices and ask them to hold up their fingers to show which one is the most specific/measurable. Identify which components make it more specific and measurable.
1. I want to get better at reading. 2. I want to get better at reading by practicing more. 3. I want to get better at reading by practicing each night for 20 extra minutes.
Critical thinking activity: view the YouTube video “Mrs. Smith’s First Graders in Nebraska are Setting Goals!”. Discuss if the goals are specific and measurable. Take a few of the students goals from the video, and practice editing them to make them more specific and measurable. Do some as a class, and some with a partner. Share.
Materials:
computer/Smartboard
chart paper/markers and/or an online collaboration tool such as Padlet or Edmoto
Informal observation of student responses as they edit goals as a class.
Ticket out the door: Have students select a goal from the class list from the beginning of the lesson and edit it to make it more specific and measurable. This can be done on paper, or on Padlet or Edmoto.
EDIM 502 Project Based Learning
Summer 2013
Michelle Thomson
- Essential Question (guiding question): How do I set a specific and measurable goal?
- Objectives:
- Students will be able to think critically about goals.
- Students will be able to edit a goal to make it more specific and measurable.
- Activation/Motivation Strategy: As a class, brainstorm some possible ideas of goals (either class goals or individual goals). List on chart paper or use a collaborative online tool such as Padlet, or a discussion board in Edmodo. Explain that the purpose of the lesson is to learn how to make our goals better.
- Teaching Strategies:
- Directly teach the vocabulary concepts of “specific” and “measurable”.
- Model taking one or more of the student ideas from the class list and edit to make it more specific and measurable. Have volunteers highlight the words that make it specific. With a different color highlight or underline the words that make it measurable.
- Check for understanding: Give students the following three choices and ask them to hold up their fingers to show which one is the most specific/measurable. Identify which components make it more specific and measurable.
1. I want to get better at reading.2. I want to get better at reading by practicing more.
3. I want to get better at reading by practicing each night for 20 extra minutes.